Thu, Sept 29 / 7pm
Sat, Oct 1 / 5pm
Sun, Oct 2 / 7:30pm
Dir. Abel Ferrara
1981, USA, 80 min
Eerie and unforgettable, Ms. 45 is an essential snapshot of New York City in the early 1980s from Abel Ferrara (Driller Killer, The Addiction)—one of the greatest and most unique living filmmakers on the planet. Thana (Zoë Tamerlis) is a garment worker who is assaulted twice in visceral fashion. Shocked to her core, Thana’s nights become consumed by vengeful prowls through the city, which result in men winding up on the wrong end of a bullet. Knocking the Death Wish rip-off subgenre into a new stratosphere, Ms. 45 showcases a haunting performance from Tamerlis and Ferrara’s knack for transforming limited resources into genre revolutions.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary and the latest expanded edition of Kier-La Janisse’s House of Psychotic Women, Cinematheque presents a series of films exploring crippling paranoia, desperate loneliness, masochistic death-wishes, dangerous obsessiveness and apocalyptic hysteria.
Generously sponsored by IATSE 856 and William F. White International.
